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These articles are reprinted from Industrial Safety & Hygiene News.
Are you sure about that?
10 tips to overcome willful blindness
Five o’clock fatigue
How a day of decisions drains mental energy
Forget power & control
Focus on human interactions to resolve safety conflicts
Your future financial safety
Social security decisions to consider
Practical drift and writing safety rules
Behaviors get loose when procedures are too tight
Catch the invisible drift
It’s easy to stray from safety rules
You’ll never have all the answers
The fine art of lending a helping hand
Tips for installing a new safety culture
Don’t trash your old culture to build a new one
How Egypt’s fall could affect you
“Desk jockeys” don’t help hard business decisions
Why safety stuff matters
To lead, you must explain the reasons
To be or not to be…a whistleblower?
Most are fired by their employers
Can whistleblowing work?
A true leadership system frees workers of the fear of retaliation
Let’s get real about empowering employees
Are your managers serious about sharing power?
Don’t start the revolution without me
A CEO survey shows how fast business is changing
If someone wants to “beat your system”…
Undercover bosses and safety ombudsmen are two strategies
Attorney-client privilege or practice?
Lawyers can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em
“Zero is the goal”
It’s an empty slogan without required resources
"Right vs. wrong” or is it “Right vs. right?”
How would you handle theses ethical dilemmas?
Twisted leadership safety ethics
When principles are compromised under pressure
Seen any Black Swans lately?
Low-probability, high-impact events are impossible to predict
Hope is not a strategy for change
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity
Death by bullet points
Bullets don’t kill people, but bullet points can
Marching to your own drummer
How to inject contrary thinking into the old “safety crowd” mindset
Selling safety systems thinking
Connect business threats & problems to safety issues
Management types & planning styles
Forget top-down future forecasting
Management types & planning styles
Which one defines your organization’s culture?
Rewiring the manager’s mindset
Turning whiners into winners
Strategies for safety & health
Collectivism (BBS, etc.) vs.individualism (personal values)
Safety & health worst practices
We need to learn from our mistakes
Is there safety in sustainability?
Part II: Pros must promote the true cost of risk avoidance
Is there safety in sustainability?
Global reporting barely gives you a clue